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PROFESSOR HIRAM CORSON, LL. D., of Cornell University, will give a course of twenty lectures on Shakespeare, beginning on Friday, January 23, and continuing on successive Mondays (except February 23), Wednesdays, and Fridays till March 11.

He will present ten Plays of Shakespeare, representing the poet's early, middle, and late work, and, along with a presentation of the organic structure of the plays selected, will indicate Shakespeare's progress in the creation of character, contrast his portrayal of characters with that of Ben Jonson and other contemporary dramatists, and especially set forth his interpretation of life which is concretely resident in the plays,-in a word, he will present the plays on the human side rather than on the scholastic. There will be two introductory lectures on Shakespeare in general. The plays will then be taken up in the following order:

THE PERPETUATION OF ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS. J. RENDEL HARRIS, A. M., Associate Professor of New Testament Greek and Palæography, will give a course of eight elementary lectures on the History of Writing, namely, the genesis, preservation, and interpretation of written documents, beginning Tuesday, January 13, and continuing every Tuesday and Thursday till February 5.

These lectures will be addressed especially to the students of ancient languages and will be subsidiary to philological, biblical, archæological, and historical research. As far as possible, they will be illustrated by facsimiles and representations of the ancient documents to which reference is made. The following scheme will suggest approximately the order to be followed in the lectures.

1. Tuesday, January 13.

The art of writing in its earlier phases. The formation of alphabets. The materials employed. Dangers to which written documents have been exposed and the means used to avoid or counteract them. The development of public interest in the collection and re-publication of ancient

No general course tickets are See regulations on page 30.

On palimpsest MSS. Antiquity of palimpsests. Character of the rescript with regard to the original. Frequency of these MSS. Division into monopsests and dipsests. Means of restoration of the lost writing. Curious self-restoration of such MSS. Important MSS. recoverable in this way:

a. Cureton's Homer.

B. The Ambrosian Plautus.

y. Codex Ephraemi Syri.

8. The S. Saba palimpsest of Euripides.

ε. The Codex Claromontanus.

s. Codex Porphyrii of the New Testament. Some remarks on retraced codices.

V. Tuesday, January 27.

DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY.

Regulations adopted by the Board of University Studies.

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Arts will be conferred in conformity with the following regulations:

1. The candidate, (after having taken his first degree), must for three years pursue university studies under conditions approved by the Board of University Studies, of which at least the last year must be as an accepted candidate studying in the philosophical department of this university.

2. He must satisfy the Board of University Studies as to his attainments by the preparation of a thesis and by passing written and oral examinations in one principal and two subsidiary subjects approved by the Board.

3. Unless permission to the contrary be given, the thesis must be presented at least three months before the candidate intends to take his degree.

4. The examination shall take place after the thesis has been approved,—the oral part of it before the Board of University Studies.

5. All theses submitted for examination must be written on paper of uniform size and description, of which a pattern may be seen in the office. Each thesis must be accompanied by an analytical table of contents. In case the author does not write a perfectly . legible hand, the thesis should be copied by a type-writer,-if the subject admit of it, or by some capable penman, or be presented in print. Theses must be bound in uniform style, with the name of the writer lettered on the back, after a pattern to be seen in the office.

Saturdays, January 10, 17.-Photographs of Italian Sculpture and Painting of the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Centuries; Sculptures and Vases (as above).

Saturdays, January 24, 31.-Engravings of Italian, French, German and British Schools of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Saturdays, February 7, 14.—Engravings of Portraits of all Schools from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. (Italian, French, German, Flemish, Dutch and British).

Saturdays, February 21, 28.-Etchings of all Schools from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century.

The Society is indebted to A. L. Frothingham, Esq., for the loan of these works.

SIR WILLIAM THOMSON'S LECTURES ON MOLECULAR DYNAMICS.

The volume of Sir William Thomson's lectures on Molecular Dynamics (delivered at the Johns Hopkins University in October, 1884) is now ready for delivery.

An edition of 300 copies has been issued, and of this number all save 60 copies were subscribed for in advance of issue. The price is fixed at five dollars net. No copies will be given away or sent in exchange.

Stenographic notes of the lectures were taken by Mr. A. S. Hathaway, lately a Mathematical Fellow of the Johns Hopkins University, and these notes have been written out aud carefully reproduced by the Papyrograph Plate Process. Additions have been made by Sir Wm. Thomson since his return to Europe, and an index and bibliographical notes have also been added. In all there are 336 pages, quarto.

Orders should be sent to the Publication Agency of the University.

STUDIES FROM THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, Vol. III, No. 2 (December, 1884) is now ready. It contains papers as follows: Notes on the Composition of the Blood and Lymph of the Slider Terrapin, (Pseudemys rugosa). By W. H. HOWELL.

The Origin of the Fibrin formed in the Coagulation of Blood. By W. H. HOWELL.

On the Action of Carbolic Acid, Atropia, and Convallaria on the Heart; with some observations on the Influence of Oxygenated and Non-oxygenated blood, and of Blood in various Degrees of Dilution. With one Plate. By H. G. BEYER.

The Action of Intermittent Pressure and of Defibrinated Blood upon the Blood vessels of the Frog and the Terrapin. By L. T. STEVENS and F. S. LEE.

Vol. VII, No. 2 (January, 1885), of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS is now ready and contains the following articles: A memoir on the Abelian and Theta functions, (chapters IV-VII, continued from Vol. V.) By A. CAYLEY.

Extrait d'une lettre de M. HERMITE.

Solution of Solvable irreducible Quintic Equations without the aid of a Resolvent Sextic. By GEORGE PAXTON YOUNG.

On the Algebra of Logic. By C. S. PEIRCE.

PROFESSOR D. C. BELL, late of Dublin, gave, on Monday, December 22, before the members of the Shakespeare Circle, a condensation of Shakespeare's comedy of The Merchant of Venice.

PHONETICS AND PRONUNCIATION.

A. MELVILLE BELL, ESQ., of Washington, formerly of London, author of "Visible Speech," will give four lectures on Phonetics, as follows:

1. Tuesday, February 10.

Enumeration of the varieties of speech elements. Alphabetic Conference in 1854 and its results. Phonetic and pictorial words. Early English pronunciation. Specimen of Shakesperian English. Spelling. Methods of phonetic initiation. Visible speech. Its applicability to all languages. Varieties of Alphabets. Modern increase in the number of discriminated sounds. The whole amount of phonetic variety. Special symbols indispensable. Descriptive names of the physiological letters. Symbols for thirty-six vowels, and forty-eight consonants. All produced from nine elementary symbols. Exercises.

II. Thursday, February 12.

Voice sounds. Breath sounds. Mouth sounds. Inhalations. Suctions. Resemblance of lowland Scotch to Early English. Specimen of the vernacular of Burns. How the visible speech category of sounds was formed. Previous classifications and nomenclature of vowels. Glossotype. International Phonetics. Natural scales of vowel sounds. The names of the vowel symbols translated into phonetic action. Exercises.

III. Tuesday, February 17.

Prejudice against novelty. University College, London. Relation of the vowel symbols to mouth-cavities. Development of consonants from vowels. The names of the consonant symbols translated into phonetic action. Correspondence between the sounds of L and V. Consonant percussions. Clicks. Non-vocal nasal consonants. Throat consonants. Exercises.

IV. Thursday, February 19.

Glides. Development of vowels from consonants. Sounds of R. The American R. Consonants in combinations. Sounds of Ch and J. The Tones of Speech. Dialectic and professional tunes. Significance of tones. Language interpreted by tones. Tests of ear. The source of expressiveness

Scientific Association.

in articulate sounds. Unused speech-material. Speech-reading by the deaf.

MR. BELL will also give two lectures on English Pronunciation, as follows: v. Tuesday, February 24.

English pronunciation and the pronunciation of English. Characteristic excellences, and the means to their attainment. Schemes of sounds in pronouncing dictionaries. Divergence in American and English phonetic practice. Elements. Syllables. Accent. Dialects. Foreign words. Oral action, &c. VI. Thursday, February 26.

Defects and peculiarities of speech illustrated, in a corrective lesson to a "shadow class" of students.

December 3.-Sixtieth regular meeting. Professor Martin in the chair. Forty-two persons present.

Papers read:

Why does One Attack of many Infectious Diseases Protect from a Second? by G. M. STERNBERG. (See p. 31.)

An Account of some additional Geometrical Models, by W. E. STORY. (See p. 36.) A simple Apparatus which enables students to Determine the Equivalents of some of the Elements, by H. N. MORSE.

January 7.-Sixty-first regular meeting. Professor Martin in the chair. Fifty persons present.

Papers read:

On the Seat of Electromotive Force in the Voltaic Cell, by C. A. PERKINS.

A Measure of the Attractive Force exerted by Isomeric and Homologous Molecules. by I. REMSEN.

Is Scientific Psychic Research Practicable? by G. S. HALL.

Philological Association.

December 5.-Fifty-seventh regular meeting. Professor Gildersleeve in the chair. Thirty-nine members present.

Papers read:

Some account of King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the De Consolatione Philosophiae of Boethius, by J. W. BRIGHT. (See p. 32.)

On the Etymology of Elixir, by C. ADLER. (See p. 33.)

January 9.-Fifty-eighth regular meeting. Professor Gildersleeve in the chair. Thirtyfive members present.

Papers read:

On the Dialects of North Germany, by E. H. SPIEKER.

The Lessons of the Peloponessian War as developed in the Speeches of Thucydides, by A. H. HUIZINGA.

On the Etymology of Hybrid, by M. WARREN.

Historical and Political Science Association.
November 21.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

Principles of Graduate and Undergraduate Work in History and Politics, by H. B.
ADAMS and J. F. JAMESON.

Principles of Graduate and Undergraduate Work in Political Economy, by R. T. ELY.

SOCIETIES.

December 5.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

The Colony at Saybrook, Connecticut, by C. H. LEVERMORE.
The Quaker Settlement at Ellicott's Mills, by H. B. ADAMS.
Canadian Studies in Local History, by E. R. L. GOULD.

Work of The Historical and Political Science Association in the University of
Nebraska, by W. H. LICHTY.

December 12.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.
Contemporary Socialism, by R. T. ELY.

Studies in Germanic Folk-Lore, by E. F. LEYH.

Recent changes in the Historical and Political courses at Yale College, by C. H. LEVERMORE.

December 17.-Dr. H. B. Adams in the chair.

The New Jersey Proprietors, by AUSTIN SCOTT.

Laughlin's Revision of Mill's Political Economy, by R. T. ELY.

Metaphysical Club.

December 16.-Fortieth regular meeting. Professor Hall in the chair. Twenty-five members present.

Papers read:

A case of Visualized Number Forms, by G. E. DE STEIGUER.

A case of Contagious Frenzy, by J. C. C. NEWTON.

Observations on the Psychology of Reading, by A. H. GROSS.
Final Causes, by A. T. BRUCE,

An Educational Study, by C. H. LEVERMORE.

Report on Visual Localization and the Sensation of Heat, by H. H. DONALDSON.

Archæological Society.

December 20.-Thirty-five persons present.

On the American School of Archæology at Athens, by A. M. WILCOX.

Dr. Wilcox gave an account of the situation of the school, of his work there last year, and of its future prospects.

On the Great Seal of Maryland, by C. C. HALL,

This paper discusses the date of this Seal recently found at Annapolis, which was one of those sent over from England under Lord Baltimore.

On Greek and Etruscan Vases, by A. EMERSON.

This address was illustrated by examples in two collections on exhibition in the rooms of the society, loaned by Mr. A. L. Frothingham and Mrs. Langdon Williams.